Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

[Savage Wombat]

I'm OK with Cthulhu being killable - they do kill him in the first story - but not really. Just "defeatable". He goes back to sleep.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

D&D did not come up with the design of Vampires having pointed ears

"his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed"

- Bram Stoker, Dracula.​

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

THE Lupin from Mystara finally makes it's leap to 5e, joining tortles and rakasta(tabaxi) in the "species I can't find a DM who will let me play one" list!

Eh, rakasta and tabaxi are pretty different, as are the leonin. That said, rakasta don't have much to distinguish them, mechanically. They can easily be made with the Tasha's custom ancestry rules.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There's a typo in the page spread, lol.

This isn't the final page.

 

[Remathilis]

Eh, rakasta and tabaxi are pretty different, as are the leonin. That said, rakasta don't have much to distinguish them, mechanically. They can easily be made with the Tasha's custom ancestry rules.

Back when Dragon+ was a thing, they said in an article that tabaxi were originally going to be an updated hybrid of Mystara rakasta and Faerun tabaxi since both were mostly obscure cat races. They kept the tabaxi name as it was less likely to be confused for raksashas.

So I maintain that tabaxi are the 5e equivalent of rakasta with a different name.

 

[Artamo]

No, but retcons can be reverted.

Sure. I guess we’ll see if they actually do anything like that.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah yeah. Hope springs eternal. It looks like the level 1 feat is gonna be the "campaign customization slot".

They kind of were already doing that since Theros.

 

[Parmandur]

Sure but I bet a good chunk of it will be verbatim copied over from Van Richten’s, like the descriptions of the domains and such.

I would bet against that, actually: it may cover similar areas, but it is probably formatted differently, similar to Forge of the Artificer.

 

[pukunui]

I would bet against that, actually: it may cover similar areas, but it is probably formatted differently, similar to Forge of the Artificer.

Well, I sure hope it is bigger than FotA. That book's content is great but it was a real missed opportunity. There was so much more they could have included in that book.

 

[Scribe]

Sure. I guess we’ll see if they actually do anything like that.

The best, is not make the mistake in the first place.

Second best, fixing the mistake yesterday.

Next best? Fix the retcon mistakes in the new book.